Online PostScript Viewer

Here's a link to a useful PostScript viewer I found online. Just paste the URL in the box!

http://view.samurajdata.se/

Useful JQuery UI Tools

In my job I use JQuery and JQueryUI a lot but JQueryUI suffers from a lack of controls and does not seem to have added any new functionality for a while.

Lucky the guys that are resonsible for JQueryUI have made available a couple of controls on their site that may make it into the main UI library in the future. Here are links to the page containing demos of the controls.

• SelectMenu
• Menu

Microsoft Excel Application missing from DCOMCNFG

Trying to work with Excel Interop on a 64-bit version of Windows with a 32-bit version of Microsoft Office installed? If so you may find that you cannot set permissions on the Microsoft Excel Application node in DCOMCNFG because it is missing!

Thanks to tibb I now know that this node can be accessed using the following method...

1. Start
2. Run
3. mmc -32
4. File
5. Add Remove Snap-in
6. Component Services
7. Add
8. OK
9. Console Root
10. Component Services
11. Computers
12. My Computer
13. DCOM Config
14. Microsoft Excel Application

Dead Horse Morris

Sicknote from Dead Horse Morris

If you don't already know I have joined a Morris Dancing side called Dead Horse Morris. They are based in Whitstable in Kent, UK and perform in Kent and the rest of the South East throughout the summer.

If you want to know what they are up to please visit their website. I've also added a twitter feed to the blog and I'm experimenting with a Google Calendar that will display their upcoming events with dates, times and hopefully a link to a map that will show you where to go.

The only event I've added to the calendar so far is Dawn Rising on 1st May 2012, so you may have to click the 'Look for more' link a few times to see it.

Argument Validation in C#

I've recently created a argument validator for C# that used the following two posts as inspiration

Elegant, appealing parameter validation syntax in C# 3.0

and

A fluent approach to C# parameter validation

Hopefully I'll post what I have (basically combining the two approaches) in the next few days.

Create DDL from Visio 2010

The ability to generate DDL from a Visio ER diagram was removed sometime ago. However it must be a task that is required in many projects.

After a quick search on the Internet I can across the following Office 2010 plug-in: Visio Forward Engineer by Alberto Ferrari. It may not do everything but it will might do all you need.

Console Applications and SharePoint 2010

Recently I tried to create a Console Application that accessed a SharePoint 2010 site. I could not get the application to run. I'd added a reference to Microsoft.SharePoint.dll and included Microsoft.SharePoint as a using clause. After some head-scratching I realised that the following project settings were required.

Application | Target framework = .Net Framework 3.5
Build | Platform target = x64

BTW, The SharePoint dlls can usually be found in the following folder:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\ISAPI